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VIII Fiction of the insignificance of the syntax of mathematical logic

Dec 2022. David Hilbert saw a “completely satisfying way” to escape the antinomies of set theory. Through his formalism he calls for the insignificance of the syntax of mathematical logic. Semantics should then only allow consistent interpretations. The overview of the syntactic signs, formulas and rules shows that the interpretation is already inherent. The alleged insignificance is an unreal fiction, which also did not protect against inconsistency.

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